Historia imprescindible para curiosos

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

"Olegario Montemayor, hijo del productor de henequâen mâas poderoso de Yucatâan, se traslada a la Inglaterra victoriana de principios del siglo XX para estudiar en Oxford. Marion Scott, una de las pocas mujeres estudiantes en esa universidad, lo deslumbra y contagia con sus preocupaciones sociales. Juntos, viajan a Yucatâan para descubrir una brutal realidad imposible de combatir desde las aulas: la obscena codicia del patriarca de la familia Montemayor y de sus socios ignora cualquier lâimite en su ambiciâon por dominar el mercado del "oro verde." Victimas de una alianza trabada entre...

This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!

Algunos de los secretos que envuelven las aglomeraciones monumentales mayas y que tanto asombraron a conquistadores y viajeros.